Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-02
LOCAL BRETITIES.

The Fire Commissioners will meet thi
evening.
A special "a train went East last nigh
from San Francisco on fast time.
| County License Collector P. f. Dolan
! collected during the month of February the
sum of S., 541 so.
A supplement to the Great Register is
being prepared, for use at the municipal
election next Tuesday.
Lou Hardie, the well-known catcher,
! formerly with the Haverly Baseball Club,
goes East tonight to rejoin the Chicagos.
In Department Two of the Superior
Court yesterday, Mary A. Spencer was
granted divorce from John W. Spencer.
The Prohibitionists have decided not to
make any nominations for city officers I'M
til the Repu blicans and Democrats have
placed their tickets in the field
The break in the water pipe on Fourth
street, near the Postoffice, which occurred
last Sunday evening, gave the city Taper
much trouble, but he got repairs finished
last evening.
The only arrest made yesterday was that
of Pat Fay, by officer Leavy, for being
drunk-so very drunk that it necessitated
the use of a wheelbarrow to convey him to
the calaboose.
Slater's nomination for Fire Commits
sioner caused an enthusiastic admirer to
remark: It's wholesome choice He
being halter, his influence will be felt
on election day"
The annual meeting of the Sacramento
County Sunday School Association was
held at the NJ. E. Church South last even
ing. The exercises included an address
by Rev. DIR. Frost.
Deputy Sheriff Newbert took George
Henderson, the stage robber who was here
as witness in the Norton case back to
Oroville yesterday. He is soon to have his
trial at that place.
Ira Oatman, NJ. D., of Sacramento, has
been appointed member of the council
for the section on obstetrics, of the Worlds
International Congress, at its ninth session,
to be held this year in Washington, D. c.
Owing to landslide between Dunsmuir
and McCloud, and another near Edgewood,
on the California and Oregon Railroad, the
passenger train from the north, due here
at 3:45 P. NJ. yesterday, did not get in until
late in the evening.
A report prevails quite generally in the
city that Charles F. Smith, the bookkeeper
at Baker Il Hamilton's who disappeared
suddenly one Saturday afternoon several
weeks ago, is sojourning for his health in
Canada. No one seems to know just how
the report originated, but in the lack of
evidence that he committed suicide, and as
citizen has always held that he saw him
on an Eastbound train on the evening of
his disappearance, considerable credence is
given 1t. 1t is understood that his accounts
With the firm were in more awkward cor
dltlon than was at first supposed
ing for the Fish Commissioners steamer
Governor Stoneman, on the Y olo side of the
river, if she is to be laid up there, as the
rising and falling of the river appears to
be causing her to make much trouble
When the river rises she floats in close to
the levee, and when it falls she is left in the
mud, in danger of careening over. Yester-
day it was discovered that the falling of the
river bed left her in trouble, and force of
men was engaged all day in moving her
from the mud bank to deep water.
The Woodland Democrat is in error in
stating that the body of the man found in
Todhunters slaughter house, Washington,
last Friday, and upon which an inquest
was held that day by Justice Bright, as re-
ported in the REcoRD-U MON next day, had
been identified as that OF Mitchell Mott,
who disappeared from this city last April.
Mr.. Motifs body, according to facts lately
developed and narrated in this paper last
Monday, was found floating in the river
near CORTLAND early in May last, but no
one identified it at the time. The man
found dead in Washington last Friday is
still - unknown"